A useful avatar for threats both real and perceived, the notion of a pan-Islamic nuclear weapon has little to do with reality.
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A common place of worship in India and Pakistan offers solace and bonds religious minorities in Pakistan.
Christians’ plight in Pakistan reflects the confused identity and ideologies of the country they live in.
Presenting violence of any sort as a cultural issue does not help prevent it.
`Militancy’ in Kashmir has taken on significantly changed dimensions, described best not by the armed struggle of a few, but by the unarmed, highly discursive resistance over new spaces of protest.
The historical animosity remains.
Are music bans in India and Pakistan an appropriation of art and performances by nationalist imperatives?
A new tool is tracking attacks on people for their religion, politics, caste, ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation.
The ride-sharing app means different things in different countries. In Karachi and Lahore, it has highlighted economic inequalities.
As the latest attack on an Indian army camp shows, India’s shift in policy from strategic restraint to preemptive self-defence is a serious gamble.
The Non-Aligned Movement member states enjoy cohesion on few issues. Historically, their heterogeneity ranged from absolute monarchs to socialist presidents.
A long-festering military and diplomatic sore has been dramatically reopened. Can it ever be healed?
If Trump becomes president, he’ll inherit one of the US’s most dangerous military tools.
India and Pakistan wanted to replace colonial English with national languages after independence. The process is still far from over.
Could this be the end of the road for the London-based leader of Pakistani’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement?
What the law in Pakistan says about honour killings.
Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor was a tough and smart strategist who held the Taliban together and crushed dissent. Will his legacy endure?
Over 8,500 were killed in the 2015 Nepal earthquake, so how is the country coping?
Minorities are increasingly facing exclusion from Pakistan’s public realm; and it’s not only terrorists who are responsible.
Lahore’s Easter Sunday suicide attack is the latest chapter in Jamaat-ul-Ahrar’s campaign against the Pakistani government – and people.
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